John Gill Commentary Psalms 78:17

"Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert." — Psalms 78:17 (ASV)

And they sinned yet more against him
Or, "and they added yet to sin against him" ^F3; which was great ingratitude; they had sinned before, and it might have been hoped that the goodness of God to them would have engaged them to have sinned no more, at least at such a rate, and in such a manner, as they had done; but instead of sinning less, they sinned more and more, they added sin to sin; such is the corrupt heart of man, notwithstanding the grace of God, and the blessings of it vouchsafed to him:

by provoking the most High in the wilderness ;
everything is aggravating; the object against whom they sinned was the most High, which betrays their impiety, folly, and vanity; and they did not slightly sin against him, but did those things which were highly provoking and exasperating; and that in the wilderness, where they must have starved and perished, and could not have lived, without immediate provision, support, and protection, from the hand of the Lord.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F3: (wl awjxl dwe wpyowyw) "et addiderunt adhuc ad peccandum ei", Montanus, "vel peccare", Musculus, Gejerus, Michaelis.